Canadian Music Week
Location(s)Toronto and Ontario
CountryCanada
Founded1981

Poster for Canadian Music Week 2000

Canadian Music Week (or CMW) is an industry conference and music festival held over ten days in Toronto and Ontario, Canada.

History

Canadian Music Week is an annual four-day music and media conference that began in 1981. It is one of Canada's largest and most influential conferences drawing top industry professionals from around the world. The event is designed to stimulate the exchange of market intelligence, increase dialogue, and provide networking opportunities.

The conference includes a variety of activities, such as conferences, award shows, and one of Canada's biggest "New Music" festivals. The festival features performances by emerging and established artists at venues ranging from bars and halls, to clothing stores and cafés.

Canadian Music Week draws in significant numbers of A&R representatives. Emerging new bands use the festival as an opportunity to be spotted by these representatives.

In January 2017, Jim Beam along with Canadian Music Week Canada launched the "Jim Beam Make History Talent Search", a talent search program designed to discover the next big Canadian music star.

Canadian Music Week has become an important platform for the Canadian music industry consistently bringing together more than 3,000 music industry professionals for the week's events. It is the single, longest running multi-day Canadian music and media event that helps to increase the visibility of emerging artists and encourage collaboration among industry professionals.[1]

Notable participants

Notable speakers and performers who have been a part of the event include:

Halls of fame

Canadian Indies Hall of Fame

CMW honors important independent and alternative artists with its annual "Canadian Indies Hall of Fame" program. Artists who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame include Parachute Club, The Pursuit of Happiness, Martha and the Muffins, D.O.A. and Rough Trade.

Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame

Canadian Music Week hosts the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame.[3]

In 2008, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame.[4]

In 2016, Andy Kim, Rob Steele, André Ménard and Alain Simard were made inductees.[5][3]

  • 2010 Spotlight on India – Rock Showcase featured a number of South-Asian-Canadian acts such as J'sin who performed tracks from his Fatlab's produced first album, Born.[6]

Canadian Music Fest

Since 2009 Canadian Music Week has referred to the festival component of the event as Canadian Music Fest, which it calls "Canada's largest new music festival".[7]

Startup Launchpad

In 2016, CMW hosted its first annual Startup Launchpad event, a pitch competition for startups in the music industry.[8] Seven startups were selected to pitch their business to potential investors and a judging panel including Michael Wekerle and Ted Cohen. The first finalists of this event were Mugatunes, an intercollegiate music sharing site,[9] Audiokite Research, a market research company for musicians,[10] Mission Control, a music management platform,[11] Aybo, Trebba and Notetracks, a music collaboration app.[12]

Canadian Radio Music Awards

In 2016, the CMW launched an award show, called the Canadian Radio Music Awards. The show, similar to the Juno Awards, recognized and celebrated Canadian music artists. The award show has not been held since 2018.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jim Beam and Canadian Music Week Launch Talent Search". Music Connection. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Bhanawat, Akshay (1 October 2019). "Gaston Iungman: The Producer machine of the Air Theater". T.H.E – Music Essentials. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Quebec's André Ménard And Alain Simard Announced As 2016 Inductees To Canadian Music Industry Hall Of Fame". CMW presents Live Music Industry Awards. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "CMW 08: Alanis Morissette Inducted Into Hall of Fame, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award".
  5. ↑ Gonshor, Bram (5 November 2015). "André Ménard & Alain Simard announced as 2016 Canadian Music Industry Hall Of Fame inductees". Music Canada. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  6. ↑ "Artists CMF 2011". Canadian Music Festival. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
    - "jsin Live@CMW 2010 Inside". YouTube. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
  7. ↑ "FAN FAQ". Archived from the original on 22 January 2011.
  8. ↑ McIntyre, Hugh. "Meet The Seven Music Startups That Were Featured At Canadian Music Week". Forbes.
  9. ↑ Inc, Mugatunes. "Mugatunes • Free Music Curation & Discovery". Mugatunes. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  10. ↑ "Audiokite Market Research for Every Musician". Audiokite.
  11. ↑ "Managing your career in the music industry is tough. At Mission Control, we make things easier". Archived from the original on 20 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Notetracks – Music Review & Collaboration". Notetracks.
  13. ↑ "Charts / Awards (2010-01-18) Music Business 3.0 The Next Generation". top40-charts.com. 18 January 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2010.


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